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Ghosty
@thatghostygal.bsky.social
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She/her, 30+, an artist/storyteller who loves her wife
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Ghosty @thatghostygal.bsky.social · Nov 15
I should probably post some of my art here, huh.
Here's some dnd art
A purple winged tiefling with golden scales flying around with golden flame emanating from her feet, leaving a trail of where she's been. A tropical island with high cliffs, greenery, some ruins, a peaceful looking cove that leads to a trail up the cliffs, and a darker looking cove with wrecked ships in the water. A vibrant image of a building on a small island in twilight with ships docked in front. Underneath the island, there is something glowing bright blue beneath the water. an above view of a clearing in a tropical rain forest, with a log, a shambling stone path in the corner, and many plants and vines visible.
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alakotila.bsky.social
✨ Centipede Knight 🌙
Artwork of a fantasy character that from the torso down is a large centipede. The character holds a shield and has a long braid, wears a fancy feathered hat, and has a bouquet of flowers at his hip and other assorted bits on his belt. The back of his blouse is open, and the start of his carapace for his lower half is visible. His ears are long and pointed, and he has long antenna flowing back and curling at the ends. His carapace and skin are shades of blue with starry accents. His hair is white, and the rest of his outfit in in various shades of the same, plus black. His blue skin is dotted with stars as well. Minimal shading and soft gradients.
December 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”

Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.

Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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stevelieberart.bsky.social
OREGON: Equal Rights for All is a ballot measure to affirm the right to abortion, contraception & IVF, trans health care, and same-gender marriage in the OR Constitution. Help make sure it gets enough signatures to qualify for the Nov 26 ballot!
Sign it:
www.equalrightsoregon.com/sign-the-pet...
Equal Rights for All is an Oregon ballot measure campaign that will affirm the right to abortion, contraception and IVF, transgender health care, and same-gender marriage in the Oregon Constitution. Our measure will be on the November 2026 ballot.
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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ellestanger.bsky.social
Advice from Portland
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
Your annual reminder that Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers, a near as dammit perfect seasonal movie (with great queer/trans rep), is free to stream on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10001...
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
The lives of three people living on the streets of Tokyo are forever changed after they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve.
tubitv.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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olthwaiteeric.bsky.social
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.
A social media post recounts a story about helping an older lady with limited English, reflecting on how having pink hair signaled trustworthiness and individuality.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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pervocracy.bsky.social
Here's some free, downloadable patterns for sewing your own binders: ureshiidesign.ca/blog/binder-...

There's detailed assembly instructions here: ureshiidesign.ca/blog/binder-...
Binder Pattern Download
Jump to US Letter Downloads Jump to A4 Downloads Two years, several versions, and thousands of downloads ago I listed this pattern for a binder on our website. For the past year it has only been avail...
ureshiidesign.ca
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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mythjae.bsky.social
Time to share my favorite everyday hot cocoa recipe!✨

1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 tablespoon maple syrup or sugar
A tiny pinch of salt
A few drops of vanilla extract
A pinch of cinnamon
6-8 oz milk of choice

This can be made in a microwave or on the stove, I'll share both.

For the stove:👇🏾 (1/3)
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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amayensis.bsky.social
An adorable colored sketch commission of a mom and her baby, dragonified ☺️
December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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sparkster2600.bsky.social
Reposting this with alt text.

Delete your Twitter. Now.
For You "Elon Saved Free Speech" White Knight Assholes: Read the New Terms of Service Released Today X just updated their Terms of Service effective January 15, 2026. Here's what you agreed to: AI TRAINING RIGHTS GRAB: Everything you post becomes training data for their Al models. Every thought, opinion, creative work. You're building their models for free. No compensation. No opt out. PERPETUAL CONTENT LICENSE: They get a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute your content "for any purpose" in "any media now known or later developed." Forever. They can sell it. Give it to governments. Anything. FORCED JURISDICTION: All disputes must be filed in Tarrant County, Texas. You waive the right to join class actions. If they wrong millions of users, you sue alone in THEIR court. ARBITRARY TERMINATION: They can delete your account "for any other reason or no reason at our convenience." Years of content, connections, reputation. Gone. Zero due process. $15,000 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES: Access more than 1 million posts in 24 hours and you owe $15,000. Per million. Journalists and researchers investigating the platform face financial ruin. GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE: They reserve the right to hand your DMs, drafts, and entire history to governments based on what they "reasonably believe" is necessary. ANTI-JAILBREAK CLAUSE: Testing their Al systems, exposing censorship mechanisms, or security research is now explicitly a Terms violation. They added "prompt engineering or injection" to prohibited conduct.
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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jonschwartz.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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shop.zandraillustration.com
don't forget 🤖🚫
a stylized illustration with the text "generative AI was never ethical". The piece features a black cat pulling cables out of the back of a robot. The robot has a conveyor belt attached to it that is pulling in packages that read "stolen art, stolen writing, stolen voices, stolen videos, stolen likeness, stolen photos, stolen books, stolen code, and stolen ideas." The piece is a reminder that generative ai was built on the backs of real artists, photographers, writers, and everyone else's creative expressions as humans in order to churn out slop to feed back to us.
July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ianusjwolf.bsky.social
Creative solidarity means:

If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.

Never help AI steal another medium

No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.

"I can't afford a visual artist"

So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?

Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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joannablackhart.com
Reminder that if anyone is setting you up online to do some crime, THAT PERSON IS A COP.

ALWAYS.

WITHOUT FAIL.
crimethinc.com CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 13d
Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case.

Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
Hey everyone going WELL TIME TO PLAY MORE FORTNITE TO HUNT DOWN PEOPLE WEARING HARRY POTTER STUFF

No. Stop playing Fortnite. They're partnering with Rowling and Harry Potter in 2025, with full knowledge of what that decision means. Stop supporting them. Stop playing the game.
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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blueheronfarm.bsky.social
Today is the last day for coverage starting January 1st, but the sign up period extends longer in most states. That coverage will begin in February.
karendipitee.bsky.social Karendipitee @karendipitee.bsky.social · 14d
It's the last day to sign up for ACA health insurance. I know there's uncertainty, but you can always sign up and cancel; you can't not sign up and decide to later (without a qualifying event).
December 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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lizardguy64.bsky.social
Hey you! Stop playing Fortnite!
News article snippet from May 30th 2025, written by Alice Linehan, that states "J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fun anti-trans organisation". Then a picture, then more text reading "J.K. Rowling is using her wealt to finance an organisation dedicated to removing trans rights. the Harry Potter Author has an" next line is cut out, but you get the picture.
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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blackmetronome.bsky.social
80s babies: Get your MMR shots ASAP if you are able to, especially with the incoming healthcare crisis looming.

Don't play this game with these crazy ass people, we are way too old be catching MEASLES. I got mine earlier this year.

My Black folks especially. Don't tempt fate. You don't want this
maddow.bsky.social Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15d
"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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alexandragallant.com
"You have to use AI."

...why?
People keep saying that AI is inevitable. Like Bartleby, I'd prefer not to... We "have to use it!" My response to that is simply... WHY? Why is it being pushed so much and into so many things? Once you've gotten people to cede their decision making to an algorithm, eventually they'll stop thinking for themselves. Why would I outsource thinking for myself to a machine? I have a brain.
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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jimwise00.bsky.social
For anyone thinking of downloading this:

(Credit: www.tumblr.com/lohboh/70879...)
Harry Potter Fans: “I can excuse rampant transphobia, but I draw the line at spoiling a game” Response: “Professor Fig dies at the end no matter what ending and also Rookwood cursed Anne and framed the goblins”
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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jabbage.bsky.social
OH This is ridiculously important!!!

One of the beautiful things about webcomics is that they still exist outside of corporate sites which restrict content and favour certain kinds of stories...

But it's been getting harder. This project would help so much.
panelparty.net Panel Party (Working on Comix Cleric!) @panelparty.net · 20d
Introducing Comix Cleric, a web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators and jam packed with features, you can learn more by checking out the Kickstarter NOW!

#comic #webcomic #webcomics #kickstarter
Comix Cleric - The Indie Way to Host Indie Comics!
A web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators!
www.kickstarter.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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athanaca.bsky.social
Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather
A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers
October 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
THIS!

Please leave five star reviews for books that you love wherever you can!
thoughtsstained.bsky.social Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 19d
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM